album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1974,0617,0.4.12
- Title
- Series: Effigies regum et satrapum persiae
- Description
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Sultan Mu`azzam, later Bahadur Shah; single-page painting mounted on album folio. Portrait of Sultan Mu`azzam, later Bahadur Shah, wearing a green tunic decorated with flowers and carrying a sword. Red-brown background. Inscribed. Album contains 51 Persian portraits.
Ink and opaque watercolour on paper. Album covered in leather binding over marbled paper with gold leaf on spine.
- Production date
- 1651-1750 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 30 centimetres (manuscript)
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Height: 29.50 centimetres (page)
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Thickness: 3.70 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 22 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 19.50 centimetres (page)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1974,0617,0.4.1-51 for all folios included in this album.
See 1974,0617,0.4.1 for spine and front matter inscriptions.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1974
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB).
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1974,0617,0.4.12
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 7964
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Miscellaneous number: Or.56